HIGH SCHOOL

Got History?  Effective Practices - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Creative Portraits-Using Art & Artifacts to Deepen Historical Understanding - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Learn “Object Observation”, a method by which art and artifacts can deepen students’ historical understanding.  Strategies learned in the workshops can be shared with students of all ages.

Discovering American Memory - (Self-paced)
Course Overview- Learn about the American Memory collections through a series of engaging activities. Use the provided tools as a basis for introducing important literacy skills needed when using primary sources.  It provides activities that could be used by teachers of students in grades 2-12.

Students as Historians - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Use photograph collections focused on the Civil War and African Americans to identify ways students can use American Memory collections as a basis for historical investigation.  The workshop serves as a model and is intended to be replicated in classrooms.

What Can We Learn from Yesterday's Stuff? - (Self-paced)
Course Overview- Delve into advertisements, broadsides, leaflets, proclamations, and programs. Learn from these sources that speak to us of concerns and conditions of the everyday life of people like us who lived in the past.

The American West - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Use prints, photos, text, sound, and film from American Memory to examine and compare how the environment, natural resources, and migration of diverse peoples have influenced the development of the cultural identity of the West.  It models use of inquiry and develops critical literacy skills for using primary sources.  It could also be used as an inquiry lesson for students of middle school through high school.

Finding the Invisible - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Define folklore and its potential in the classroom. Explore sense of place through the folklife and traditions of your own life and region using materials from American Memory.  Activities from the workshop could be applied, with appropriate modification to a K-12 classroom setting.

The Second Wave-European Immigration from 1850 to 1920 - (Self-paced)
Course Overview- Follow a set of Web links to documents, images, and more to uncover what America was like for immigrants arriving at the turn of the century. Working with primary sources in small groups, create a firsthand account of a fictional family from one culture chronicling their experiences as immigrants.  This activity models a highly effective yearlong study of American history for middle school students. Workshop participants take the part of students who are learning about 19th and 20th century European immigration.

America's History in the Making - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Explore American history from the Pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction.

Bridging World History - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-A course for secondary school and college teachers that looks at global patterns through time.  Topics are studied in a general chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences.

The Economics Classroom (for High School teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Provides a solid foundation for teaching the concepts covered in high school economics courses.

Making Civics Real - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-This workshop illustrates a constructivist approach to the teaching of civics.

Primary Sources:  Workshops in American History - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-In this workshop, 12 high school history teachers explore the use of primary-source documents in the research and interpretation of American history. The programs feature informal lectures by prominent historians on pivotal events from the settlement of Jamestown to the Korean conflict and the Cold War.

Social Studies in Action:  A Methodology Workshop K-5 - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Provides a methodology framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens.

Teaching Geography - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Why do people migrate? What factors determine city location, growth, and development? How does place influence the spread of disease? These questions form the basis of inquiry for geographers, teachers, and students. In exploring such questions, this video workshop for seventh- through twelfth-grade teachers provides a strong foundation in geography content and inquiry teaching skills, as outlined in the National Geography Standards.